# Ghost Hands (pypi · ghost-hands)

Governed browser hands for AI agents: classified actions, human approvals, replayable audit trails.

- Trust score: 72/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- pypi · `ghost-hands`: 72/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands/ghost-hands.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands/ghost-hands)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `ghost-hands`
- Version: `0.9.3`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs hatchling.build at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 100/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to littlestjames82-sys/ghost-hands).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 53/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 223 tokens (~55/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 3/100
  - Stability observed for 1 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 20/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2024-11-05; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Ghost Hands MCP server?

Ghost Hands runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx ghost-hands. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands -- uvx ghost-hands
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "ghost-hands"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "ghost-hands"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands -- uvx ghost-hands
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "ghost-hands"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands --command uvx --arg ghost-hands
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["ghost-hands"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "ghost-hands"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands -t stdio -c uvx -a ghost-hands
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "ghost-hands"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 72)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `hands_perceive` (~44 tokens)

Open a URL (or install a fake web via 'pages') and return the numbered element map.

Input parameters:

- `pages` (object)
- `url` (string)

### `hands_act` (~69 tokens)

Perform one governed action (e.g. {"kind":"click","target":3}) on the perceived page. Consequential actions are denied without an approver (or decided by the phone when GHOST_HANDS_APPROVER=phone); the response states which channel decided.

Input parameters:

- `action` (object, required)

### `hands_run` (~90 tokens)

Run scripted steps through the governed Runner. driver: 'fake', 'chromium', 'simphone' or 'android' (default: the session body, GHOST_HANDS_DRIVER).

Input parameters:

- `approve_all` (boolean)
- `driver` (string)
- `goal` (string)
- `pages` (object)
- `start_url` (string)
- `steps` (array, required)

### `hands_trail` (~20 tokens)

Return this session's trail events and per-run accounting.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands/ghost-hands#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 72
- 2026-11-04: 72

## Common questions

### What is the Ghost Hands MCP server?

Ghost Hands is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.littlestjames82-sys/ghost-hands. Governed browser hands for AI agents: classified actions, human approvals, replayable audit trails. This page covers its PyPI package (ghost-hands).

### Is the Ghost Hands MCP server safe to use?

Ghost Hands scores 72 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Ghost Hands MCP server expose?

Ghost Hands exposes 4 tools: hands_perceive, hands_act, hands_run, hands_trail. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 223 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Ghost Hands MCP server still maintained?

Ghost Hands is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the Ghost Hands MCP server under?

Ghost Hands declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/ghost-hands/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/ghost-hands
- Repository: https://github.com/littlestjames82-sys/ghost-hands
- Website: https://littlestjames82-sys.github.io/ghost-hands/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands/ghost-hands.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands/ghost-hands.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/littlestjames82-sys-ghost-hands/ghost-hands